Names like Dolce?

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Name change.

I really love the name Dolce (Doll-chee). I think the sound of it is so pretty and would be lovely on a baby and an elderly woman. DH thinks it's too linked to D&G and tacky.

Ig I'm looking for similar names?

Our other DC's names are: unisex nature (think Robin), uncommon biblical (think Moses), and the youngest is taken from a piece of fiction (think Theon-- without the negative connotations 😬 basically a name that kind of sounds like it could be a 'real' name, no crazy spelling) so we're not too fussed about them 'going together'.

*I don't like Dulce

Dulcie?

Since "Dolce" is an Italian word, yet I have never seen an Italian with the first name "Dolce", I'd knock that or any other type of foreign word that isn't a common first name in that culture or which you have no cultural ties to on the head.
I think that is quite a good boundary to start with in naming one's child.

Yeah, I think a Dolce would get lots of 'what, like Dolce and Gabbana?' 'what, like Dolce Gusto?' etc.

What about Mica pr. mee-sha?

These names have Chee sounds.
Lucia - Loocheeuh
Chelsy
Katya - Kahcheeuh

lucia, pronounced loo-chee-а?

I'll be honest, that name screams gutter trash council estate. I'd just give them a normal name. Life is hard enough as it is, don't make it any harder for them.

No horrible name

Agreed with your husband, I'm afraid - people with immediately think "...and Gabbana".

Lucia as a PP suggested, although unless you've got an obviously Italian surname I think people will pronounce it Lu-see-a.

Or Francesca, nn Chesca?

I'm not going with Dolce, just looking for suggestions. It will stay a guilty pleasure. Or perhaps for a cat.

Ooh, Lucia is really pretty. I quite like Mica too but I think that would get butchered!

What's wrong with being from a council estate? :)

I did qualify it with saying gutter trash council estate!
I've lived on a few over the years. There are respectable people on council estates, then there are people like Holly Dance. I think you get what I mean?

It's not a first name. It's Italian for sweet.

Yeah, I got exactly what you mean. But it could have been achieved with saying 'trashy' alone, rather than tacking on council estate so everyone knew you meant 'trashy AND poor'.

And I didn't know who Holly Dance was but I googled and it appears you mean the mum of a dead child? Which is a supremely weird thing to reference!

Katya doesn't have a 'tch' sound in it. It sounds like Ka(r)t-ya, @user1492757084

Isn't Dolce pronounced Doll-cheh? It means sweet.
I think it's a bit like calling a child Chanel, Dior or Armani.

It's nice in Italy not in the U.K. though very stripper like

Just for information, please ignore if you like. Nobody in the UK was called Dolce before 2005, and only about 60 in the years since, so it barely registers as a name. Personally, I think you should never name a child anything that means people will say "Sorry, I didn't catch that" every time they say it for the rest of their lives!

Is it the 'ch' sound you like? Or something else?

What about Darcy? Sort of similar sounding but without the 'ch'.

I'm not sure, I just like the sound as a whole. I wanted Darcy for DD1 but DH said no 😅

We're between Luna, Nora and Alice. Going to wait until she's here I think.

Thank you for all your suggestions!

Aren’t you just delightful

Isn’t the Dolce of D&G a surname?

Dulcie? That's a British name so pronounced Duhl-see.

Chiara. Kee-ah- ra. It's the Italian version of Claire, or so my Italian in-laws tell me.

Also. Not a very usual one either.

@JacobsCrackersCheeseFogg Clara is the more direct Italian correspondent to Claire, though Chiara is part of the same name family.